Tagged 'rule of thirds'

imageCompHelper

53 votes

I wanted to create a script to visualize the `Rule of Thirds` inside the 3ds Max Viewport, to aid in the composition of my camera shots. Inspired by this script I also added some other overlay options. The lines inside the viewport are drawn as a kind of render effect, so no geometry is created and no camera is needed. They will interactively adjust to any image aspect and are visible in the active viewport, so switching the viewport will also move the lines there.

Image Comp Helper

2 votes

This is my updated version of Christoph Bülter's awesome imageCompHelper script (http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/imagecomphelper) for displaying composition guides in the active viewport.

This new version has a couple of additions to the original: